Yes the media will try to piss everyone off, because it is profit driven and pissing people off is the best way to fuel engagement. Anger memes spread the best. It's a mixture of a profit-driven business and the competition with other profit-driven businesses which leads them to act this way. The game needs to be redesigned if you want them to play differently.
In either case, it's more important to be educated to know that the media is divisive, and that the only way to overcome media bias is to increase one's bandwidth of information: read all the major news outlets. Don't just rely on one news source. Get to know who owns which papers and always keep an eye out for conflicts of interest when reading about certain subjects.
In either case, it's more important to be educated to know that the media is divisive, and that the only way to overcome media bias is to increase one's bandwidth of information: read all the major news outlets. Don't just rely on one news source. Get to know who owns which papers and always keep an eye out for conflicts of interest when reading about certain subjects.